Re: Add a disk to rootvg - error: unable to extend volume group

From: Nenad (nskrijelj_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 07/31/03 

Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:09:15 +0200

Try with -f flag:
extendvg -f rootvg hdisk8

"glaste" <sgl@globaz.ch> wrote in message
news:3752721a.0307310053.1690f72b@posting.google.com...
> I install several new SCSI disk on my AIX5.2 machine.
> My aim is to add 2 of these disks to rootvg. (by using extendvg)
> I already got hdisk0 to hdisk3 on rootvg
> hdisk4 to hdisk7 on db_vg
> I want to add hdisk8 and hdisk9 to rootvg
>
> But.... when I run extendvg, I got the following error:
> ----
> [/] > extendvg rootvg hdisk8
> 0516-008 extendvg: LVM system call returned an unknown
> error code (-271).
> 0516-792 extendvg: Unable to extend volume group.
> ----
>
> What's wrong? Did I miss something?
>
> Seems strange because I think I've done every previous steps prior to
that.
> See that :
> [/] > lsdev -Cc disk
> hdisk0 Available 1S-08-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
> hdisk1 Available 1S-08-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
> hdisk2 Available 1S-08-00-10,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
> hdisk3 Available 1S-08-00-11,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
> hdisk4 Available 2d-08-00-8,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
> hdisk5 Available 2d-08-00-9,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
> hdisk6 Available 2d-08-00-10,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
> hdisk7 Available 2d-08-00-11,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
> hdisk8 Available 2d-08-00-12,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
> hdisk9 Available 2d-08-00-13,0 16 Bit LVD SCSI Disk Drive
>
> [/] > chdev -l hdisk8 -a pv=clear
> hdisk8 changed
> [/] > chdev -l hdisk8 -a pv=yes
> hdisk8 changed
>
> [/] > lspv
> hdisk0 0059167ac26ad42b rootvg active
> hdisk1 0059167a26c3579e rootvg active
> hdisk2 0059167a0da92c7f rootvg active
> hdisk3 0059167a26c357c5 rootvg active
> hdisk4 0059167ab31d8edd dbvg active
> hdisk5 0059167ab31d8fb5 dbvg active
> hdisk6 0059167ab31d908c dbvg active
> hdisk7 0059167ab31d916d dbvg active
> hdisk8 0059167ab76d7a9d None
> hdisk9 0059167ab30b9cbc None